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IP: A medical correctionDo you finally feel old (or a lot older)?
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:55:30 -0500
From: "Robert J. Woolley" <wooll005 () tc umn edu> Reply-To: "Robert J. Woolley" <wooll005 () tc umn edu> To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Re: IP: Do you finally feel old (or a lot older)? Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:51:52 -0600 In message <4.1.19981112171619.00c0d9c0 () mail earthlink net> writes:
They never had a Polio shot, and likely, do not know what it is.
I liked the list, except for this item. It's true that, for the most part, oral polio vaccines replaced injectable ones more than 30 years ago. However, within the last few years the preferred approach (as endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control [I almost wrote just "CDC," but for your audience that might bring to mind Control Data Corporation]) is to go back to the injectable vaccine for the first doses, followed later by the oral version. This change is recent enough that the above item is still largely true for current 18-year-olds. But it might be useful to let your readers know that the injectable polio vaccine is making a comeback, so they shouldn't be surprised to see their children being given it. Regards, Robert J. Woolley, MD University of Minnesota --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Woolley St. Paul, Minnesota "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want--an adorable pancreas?" -- Jean Kerr _____________________________________________________________________ David Farber The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems University of Pennsylvania Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber
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